Wichita eagle., 1887-12-16
A BUSINESS MANS VIEW.
A Successful and Experienced Western Capt.
talist and Financeer Talks About and
to Wichita.

to Wichita.
Major Hartwic. ex-mayor of st. Joseph,
Missouri. and for years one among the
most prominent of that city's wealthy and
enterprising citizens, arrived in Wichita
yesterday. Major Hartwig says that every
few days he has the pleasure of taking
down some Missouri river city fellow who
happens along with the news that Wichita
has stopped growing. The truth is the
Major, who owns large and valuable prop
critics here, visits us three Or four times
year he says there is no more question of
Wichita making a city than there was
that Kansas City would. and prominent
one among the great cities of the west; and
that while his convictions touching such
greatness for Wichita has never wavered
tor moment since his first conclusion Of
ten Or twelve years ago when he came
down here and planted some of his
capital, that nevertheless each recurring
visit is surprise in the rapidity with
which we get there" The major, who
has had much experience with municipal
affairs, and has been a great traveller and
observer, says that Wichita seems to make
no mistake, and especially never loses an
opportunity; that an opportunity or chance
for advancement once lost or given over by
town leaves il in the dilema of reducing
big stone pile with small hand hammer
instead of with big stone crusher \
city which has lost opportunities is com
PEELED to hammer and hammer away eter-
nally with but slow progress while Wich-
tia with the whirr and effectiveness of a
threshing machine. takes hold of, assimi-
oil ~, l.
prise as fast as presented He went on to
say further that Wichita mad acted wisely
in the matters of sewerage and street
pavements, by not rushing precipitously
and blindly into burtheusOme debts and
ill-matured plans before she had grown
powerful and wealthy. His convictions
are that in the matter of sewerage we
ought to adopt a natural fall system of
several mains of eighteen or twenty inches
diameter, each of independent outlets for
the latterals of several distinct districts.
and not depend upon or be confined TO one
main, and that our sewerage should be
from grade-foor levels and not from cellar
floor levels. BY putting in several such
mains he thinks that we would find il
work nicely TO turn storm and ditch water
into the mains at street corners. But the
councils no hurry as IL seems that the
main already IN for the thickly built bust
ness portion of the city IS working well,
As for street paving, with no clay here 10
make mud, he declares that Wichita mas
the finest natural streets Of any city in the
world, and that we ought not to think
of paving yet for years, not to even
commence any such work until
all the pipes and street mains OF the water,
gas and sewer systems are down, by which
time we can take advantage of the expert
enc of all the other western cities with
the new kinds of pavements being tried
but with millions more OF property and
millions more of surplus taxable values to
back the work. In all these estimates and
counsels our readers viii see that the major
IS in most hearty accord with the record Of
this paper.
Coming down to our packing interests.
Major Hartwig, who is perfectly conversaDt
with the development and growth OF that
business at Kansas City, ChicagO.St. Joseph
and Omaha, says there is not question
of Wichita's success; that situated as she
is with reference to Southern Kansas, the
Territory, Southern Colorado and Texas,
she will not only become a packing center,
but a great live stock central market
quoted the world over, with no com
petitor at least for years, nearer than ST.
Joseph and Kansas City, whose compe-
tition will not be felt when we once get
under way.
Major Hartwig will be in
the city two or three days